IRAN-ISRAEL TENSIONS: Return to NUCLEAR DEAL, or see Region go up in FLAMES.

Iran-Israel tensions: Return to nuclear deal, or see region go up in flames. With continued Israeli sabotage and in the absence of a revival of the nuclear deal, we could see the proliferation of nuclear-arms programmes and the outbreak of new wars. Ten days after an explosion, widely attributed to Israeli sabotage, cut off electrical power to the centrifuges at Iran’s main underground uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz, a Syrian surface-to-surface missile exploded near Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor on Thursday resulting in tensions running high in the region. The Natanz attack came just before a second round of talks in Vienna between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. Israel fiercely opposed the deal, and former US President Donald Trump withdrew from it in May 2018. Iran’s foreign ministry has blamed Israel for the Natanz attack, calling it “nuclear terrorism” and a “crime against humanity”. In